A group that is synonymous with “Keep It In the Ground” wants its members’ hard earned cash to “fill up their gas tank.” News flash: even if they hop on a bus that doesn’t run on diesel, it will probably use propane or compressed natural gas to get these protesters to their event to, um, protest fossil fuels.

Radical environmentalists have really been taking it on the chin at the multiplex. They are perfect villains for our times: well-intended enough to often seem somewhat reasonable, but meddlesome busybodies whose hopes and dreams are to radically reduce standards of living in order to effect some utopian scheme or another that will return the world — or worlds — to an unsullied Eden.

For much of the past decade, oil and gas pipeline opponents have argued that we should not be investing in pipelines because it will “lock in” continued fossil fuel use for decades to come. Blocking the infrastructure, they argue, will force investment dollars into renewable technologies instead.

Venezuela, by some measures home to the world’s largest crude reserves, saw oil output drop in September to a four-decade low of 1.17 million barrels. The same month saw North Dakota, owner of the Guinness World Record for the most snow angels, produce a record of nearly 1.3 million barrels.

The river of oil now hitting the market from U.S. fracking has stunned global energy markets. The U.S. has already leapfrogged both Russia and Saudi Arabia as the No. 1 producer. Will U.S. oil lead to OPEC’s demise?

A recent article from a publication called “Wired” about anti-pipeline activists so romanticizes the act of vandalizing energy infrastructure that readers could almost be forgiven for thinking these extremists are doing the right thing – almost.

They aren’t getting the national media attention that was focused on the year-long, often-violent protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016/17 , but activists are still disrupting the building of a number of pipelines around the country. Several major new oil and gas pipeline projects around the U.S. are experiencing delays and disruptions due to the ever-evolving tactics deployed by well-funded anti-development activist groups.